Kilpatrick Stockton merging with Ca. firm

Press Release

Atlanta-based Kilpatrick Stockton, the fourth-largest law firm in the Triad and the eighth-largest law firm in the state, will merge with San Francisco-based Townsend and Townsend and Crew to become Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP. The merger will be effective Jan. 1.


Bill Dorris of Kilpatrick Stockton will serve as chair of the merged firm. Diane Prucino of Kilpatrick Stockton and Maureen Sheehy of Townsend will serve as co-managing partners.


Kilpatrick Townsend will have about 650 attorneys in 17 offices across the nation, including in Winston-Salem, Charlotte and Raleigh.


The merger with Townsend comes one month after Kilpatrick Stockton announced its merger with Oakland-based construction firm Bell, Rosenberg & Hughes.

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